After a frustrating September, came an October long to be remembered. If ever there were two consecutive months that illustrate just how important it is to grind through the bad times, these were they.
Three things:
Weekly Golf Value putting up 200/1 winner Junghwan Lee.
A Lucky15 taken from the Bookie Bashing Racing Tracker containing three double-digit priced winners.
Erling Haaland.
Combined, these three things were the dominant contributors to a month that coughed up near 30% total bank growth and an ROI of almost 16.5%, way above my target. Happy days indeed.
Funnily enough, I wrote a couple of weeks ago that October was something of an experimental month for me. The transition – for the second time in my betting career – away from using online books and more and more towards the shops meant feeling the water. What can I follow, which strategies can I use, that best fit around other commitments? Which can I follow consistently? And yes, which do I enjoy using most?
I’m going to break down thoughts in the next few posts, but for now, the only thing I should be asking myself is should I experiment more often!?!
Anyway, moving into November and I feel clear and settled on what I can and can’t do. It genuinely feels as if some fog has cleared, and at the risk of sounding like Johnny Nash, I can see clearly now.
Despite the 200/1 WGV winner, it was actually the BB Racing Tracker Lucky 15s that provided the greatest profit on the month. Yes, there was that one big bet, but there were three or four others that kept it all ticking over throughout the month. If I remember correctly, my ROI was hovering around the 15% mark before I hit that big win. Around 30% of the profit was actually from all bets other than that one.
Weekly Golf Value has obviously had a stormer, and whilst I can still get my bets on online, I’ll continue to follow. There will come a point soon where I’m going to have to use the Tracker myself and get down to BetFred, Ladbrokes and William Hill and stick down cold, hard cash. Talking of which, we’ve not yet seen the returns we expect from using the Each Way Golf Doubles strategy but it’s only a matter of time.
It really pains me to give credit to Erling Haaland but the fact is he’s been a fine contributor to the profit this month. Perhaps I should rather look at it as other City players being unable to score much, but whatever, the Double Delight/Hat Trick Heaven strategy has been very kind. I know from past experience however, that it can go a long time in a state of drawdown and I’m not going to get carried away. That the largest drawdown I experienced following this September reached just -35 points tells us everything we need to know about the heat of the hot streak its been on!
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I’ll not dig into detail on the disappointments on the month right now. The figures are below and after a month like this one, why dwell on the negative?
Let’s see what November brings.
October 2025 figures (stakes normalized):
Bookie Bashing Racing Tracker (L15s): Staked 1,510pts, +1,153.64pts, ROI 76.4%, DD -0pts, Max DD -244.62pts.
BB EW Golf Doubles: Staked 231pts, -96.65pts, ROI -41.83%, DD -121pts, Max DD -121pts.
BB Darts Tool: Staked 240pts, +48.49pts, ROI 20.2%, DD: -16.78pts, Max DD: -38.05pts.
DD/HH: Staked 345pts, +427.5pts, ROI 123.91%, DD: -0pts, Max DD -35pts.
BB Football Coupons: Staked 385pts, -93.84pts, ROI 24.37%, DD -198.79pts, Max DD -198.79pts.
Value Bets/Enhanced Specials (Exchange): Staked 315.4pts, -112.87pts, ROI -35.78%, DD -112.28pts, Max DD -112.28pts.
Sharp Betting Football: Staked 8,406.11pts, -131.79pts, ROI -1.56%, DD -436.6pts, Max DD -436.6pts.
The Transfer Flow (Trial): Staked 860pts, +174.56pts, ROI 20.29%, DD: -0pts, Max DD -34.51pts.
Touchdown Profit: Staked 380pts, -159.42pts, ROI -41.95%, DD -159.42pts. Max DD -159.42pts
Weekly Golf Value: Staked 684pts, +993.62pts, ROI 145.26%, DD -0pts, Max DD -218.8pts
Total: Staked 13,356.51pts, +2,203.24pts, ROI 16.49%, DD -0pts, Max DD -427.92pts, Bank Growth 28.99%
